Benjamin Netanyahu, whose response to the EU's move shows he is yet to internalize what a blow it is for Israel, has to understand that he is leading the nation into the abyss.

The European Union has decided to forbid funding, cooperating with, or investing in entities that are located in or have any link to West Bank settlements, Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem or communities on the Golan Heights. The new EU guidelines also say that any future EU-Israeli agreement will have to include a clause stating that the settlements are not part of sovereign Israel and are not included in...

The most important thing is that Israel ends its illegal occupation of
someone else's land, logically it could even do that without signing a
peace treaty with the Palestinians though that would probably be an
unwise move on Israel's part. History has shown that where Israel's
has peace treaties with its neighbours, these have helped Israel. The
settlements are ideologically driven, any connection between them and
Israel's security is tenuous at best. For protection, Israel has one of
the best equipped armies in the world. Israel is the master at always
finding a reason why it is the wrong time to talk to the Palestinians.
The civil war within the Arab world is the latest convenient excuse, in
practice how many Israeli Jewish civilians - whether religious,
nationalistic or simply after cheaper housing - live in the West Bank
has no connection to the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict and everything to do
with denying the Palestinians their own state.

It doesnt understand the very basic concept that AGREED SWAPS means that
Palestinians have to agree to every dunum Israel want to keep or it
remains part of Palestine. It doesnt understand that Israel has to GIVE
something to get such an agreement. It doesnt plan to give anything
anyway. Israel believes that walking away from some of the land is a
sufficient concession to dictate the rest of the terms.

Yes, obviously the "settlers" themselves are a minority within
Israel's population. However, anybody who thinks that they aren't
supported by a much bigger section of the Israeli population is being
disingenuous at best. As for the EU, they're a cosignatory to the Oslo
agreements. By supporting the PA's UN gambit and now, by trying to
define the green line as a border, the EU is basically abrogating these
agreements. Thereby, in my eyes, the EU has lost all credibility!

Please do not judge Netanyahu so harshly. I do not think he lives in
denial, but rather quite honestly he simply does not know what to do.
Put vulgarily in a comprehensive way: how do you make "peace"
with a rattle-snake? Will it stop biting, if you make peace with it?
What quarantees do you have for that? Can you trust the rattle-snake? It
produces new venomous snakes all the time that separate themselves from
the mother snake and do not care a hoot about agreements made betw. the
mother-snake and Israel: like first there was PLO, then Hamas emerged
from it, who affiliated itself with Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood,
Salafists .... and so on. The enemy is not stable, but in constant state
of division into new venomous snakes biting Israel and agreements made
with Israel do not bind them so the the eternal jihad against Israel is
on all eternity. SO: how does one make any kind of "peace"
with such an enemy? It is the USA, who is naive and the Euroepeans who
are living in denial. Both namely believe in peace that is impossible
..... the USA has no grasp of reality and the Europeans, who do suffer
from the Muslims' scary rage-attacks in their continent once in a while,
live in denial, bc they do not acknowledge the Muslims' uncontrollable,
destructive nature ......yet they keep pushing Israel to
"peace" with people, who simply cannot live in peace....not
even among themselves. - Netanyahu living in denial? I don't think so.
It also is painful to Netanyahu as a religious Jew to think of giving up
on land and Jerusalem, which are inherently Jewish. What the USA and the
EU are asking Israeli adm. to do is like asking her to kill her mother.
Sorry, can't be done. - Bc I consider the USA's and the EU's requests
unreasonable and "disproportionate" (=the fashionable term), I
think they are pressuring Israel to "peace" out of their own
selfish motives, which I think are those of paving the way for the NWO
(I think you 'ld study it in order to learn what the are up to). I do
not think that the USA nor the EU care the least about Israel's
existence, bc they do not want to do what is right, instead they insist
on an "easy" solution that does not take Israel's small size
and historic right to Samaria and Judea and Jerusalem and the
attack-wars on Israel into consideration. ---- As my subjective opinion
I repeat as the only way to a calm co-existence betw. Israel and the
Pals a return to the San Remo and implementing it to the Pals. But as
mentioned earlier, the USA and the EU do not want to DO what is right,
they want to BE rght on the Pal-Arabs' behalf. THAT is THE obstacle to
calm and peace.

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